I’ll dispense with the ‘I haven’t written anything here in a while’ preface and get right to the meat of it. Michael Teager and myself are preparing to go into the studio and work on our next Borghi-Teager studio album. This time I don’t have much in the way of ideas and I’ve been spending my time practicing improvising.

Key to my improvisational work is Ableton Live, and after some reviews of Shades of Bending Light dismissed the idea that it was, in fact, wholly improvised, I’ve decided to document, via screencasts, my practice and rehearsal sessions for our next studio album, blemishes, wrong notes, warts and all, so that folks can go behind the curtain and get a conceptual understanding of the craft of our brand of improvised ambient soundscapes.

Additionally, much of the music is pretty good. I’ve surprised myself at times, which is the best part about improvisation… there are about five videos up at the time of this writing, and the music is really quite good. Sometimes, it stalls, and that would be edited out of any recording session in the post-production cull, but here there’s no post-production, I record live, render/upload it out of Camtasia and call it a wrap. So that’s it. That’s what I’m doing.

Also, maybe, some folks might be interested to see what I’m doing in Ableton Live. I haven’t used another piece of software for music since 2002. It’s all I use. All of my effects are standard, out of the Ableton box, and I find that it does everything and more that I can dream of, including things I never thought that I wanted it to do. For a while, many folks believed that Ableton Live was really just for electronic and EDM, but there are many contemporary composers out there proving that wrong and I hope that my vids do just that.

Anyway, thanks and enjoy!